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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.

3.6M visits/mo
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Runpod
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Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.

2.3M visits/mo
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Kie.ai
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Affordable API platform for running image and video models like Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), priced pay-per-image.

1.7M visits/mo
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Lightning AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.

467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Replicate AI
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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.

1.3M visits/mo17K saves
Pricing
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
Nano Banana Pro: $0.09/image (1K-2K)
Nano Banana Pro: $0.12/image (4K)

No public pricing

CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)

Free trial available

Core features
  • LPU custom inference hardware
  • GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
  • High-speed, low-latency inference
  • Pay-as-you-go token pricing
  • Free API key to start
  • Broad open-model support
  • On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
  • Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
  • Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
  • Multi-node clusters for distributed training
  • Persistent network storage for full pipelines
  • Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
  • Pay-as-you-go access to Nano Banana Pro API
  • 1K/2K/4K image generation
  • Many models (Seedream, Grok, GPT, Gemini)
  • Playground for testing prompts
  • REST and SDK integration
  • Usage logs, analytics and quota monitoring
  • Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
  • PyTorch Lightning training framework
  • Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
  • Collaborative, shareable ML environments
  • Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
  • One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
  • Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
  • Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
  • Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
  • Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
  • Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
Use cases
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
  • Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
  • Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
  • Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
  • Adding AI image generation to apps
  • Integrating Nano Banana Pro at low cost
  • Batch and high-volume image pipelines
  • Prototyping across many AI models
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
  • Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
  • Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
  • Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
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